Friday, March 12, 1993 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Student travelers need immunizations By Vicki Bode Kansan staff writer Students planning to travel out of the United States for spring break should stop by Watkins Memorial Health Center to check the immunizations required for their destination. In February, Watkins started using a software program, Travel Care, that listed the immunizations required for almost every country in the world. Jody Woods, nurse practitioner at Watkins, said students should come into Watkins as soon as their travel itineraries were determined, because some countries required immunizations that must be given six months in advance. The students must come into Watkins knowing where and when they will travel, she said. The students should also know how long they will be in the country, any allergies they have and what prescription drugs they are taking. "The amount of time the student will spend in a country often determines what shots need to be given." Woods said. The information is entered into a computer and a printout is given to the students to take with them on their trips. The service is free for KU students. The printout includes the following information: immunization requirements advice for people with allergies risks of malaria, yellow fever and rash regional diseases any current disease outbreaks - a short description of the country - crime information about the country. Travel Care is updated every month by the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and then the updated version is sent to Watkins, Woods said. Nurses at Watkins had to look up information about foreign countries in updated books before they received Travel Care, she said. She said it used to take three times longer using the old method. Travel Care allows a student to receive the information in less than half an hour. Paul Kotz / KANSAN Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said that Travel Care was an invaluable resource. No bones about it Teresa Hedges, Lawrence graduate student, examines a leg bone from a cow. The bone was found in Kansas City, Mo., and was dated between 1820 and 1840. Yesterday, Hedges was organizing artifacts found at the archeological site. Engineering researcher bending bars for better buildings Special to the Kansan People flee as the ground rumbles, buildings tumble and bridges crumble. This may be the reality of an earthquake now, but Steven McCabe, associate professor of civil engineering, is doing research that will help buildings and bridges of the future withstand an earthquake and other forces of nature. McCabe does research on the steel bars that are encased in concrete. These bars help buildings withstand an earthquake because of their ability to stretch. During an earthquake, concrete, because it does not stretch, would normally crack and cause a building to crumble to the ground. However, the steel bars encased in the concrete stretch with the movements of the earth and help the building to remain standing. "During earthquakes, horrible things happen to buildings from the tension created," he said. "The steel bars act like rubber bands. They stretch like crazy so that the building does not collapse. "These steel bars are something most people are not aware of, but they are everywhere. People don't see them through the concrete so they don't realize that they are there." McCabe is focusing on the connections, or couplers, between the steel bars. Couplers are necessary because steel bars only come in standard sizes. McCabe said. Since the steel bars cannot run the length of a building, couplers connect them to each other. McCabe's research, which will be completed sometime in July, will determine a correct and safe standard for couplers. The standard will be added to the seismic design section of the American Concrete Institute's "Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete." There are rigorous standards for how flexible the steel bars have to be, but there is no standard for the couplers. McCabe said. This creates a problem because if the couplers are less flexible than the bars, then they defeat the purpose of the bars. The building would just collapse when the coupler snapped, even if the bar was stretching. There are three different ways to connect the steel bars, said Dave Schlimme, graduate research assistant for McCabe. The bars can be tied Schilmein said the equipment used to test the bars can produce up to 100,000 pounds of tension on the bar and couplers. or welded together, but McCabe's research is focused on the mechanical couplers that are used in seismic areas. They are trying to determine which mechanical couplers are as flexible as the steel bars. "The machine pulls on the bar until either the bar or the coupler snaps." Schlinne said. "We are trying to find couplers that can equal the performance of the steel bars. The current standard for steel bars is that they be able to stretch 4 percent of their length." So far, their research shows that if the bar and coupler can withstand the tension once, they can withstand it 20 times. Schlimme said. its length and then let it snap back like a rubber band. They did this about 20 times to see whether the action wore down the bar or the coupler. Schlumme said that he and McCabe ran tests to try to mimic what would happen in an earthquake. To do this, they stretched the bar to 2 percent of McCabe said that in severe earthquakes, engineers would like to see the bar and coupler bend, maybe even permanently, but not break. This would save lives because the building would not collapse even though it would be deformed. "With progressively bigger earthquakes, we can only do so much," he said. "There is no such thing as the earthquake-proof house. What we want to happen is for the bars to bend and stretch, but not break." Class brings world's music to students By Lisa Miller Special to the Kansan George Heller, professor of art and music education and music therapy, has taken a new approach to this music culture class. Stand up and clap your hands to the beat of a Romanian wedding song. And welcome to the new and improved class of Music and World Culture. Music and World Culture, MHST 560, has been taught by different professors over the years, so the course's curriculum has been diverse. Now the class has changed again. Heller chose to teach it as a general survey of world music for the "general" student. It is not a music class for specialized music students, and it fulfills the non-Western civilization requirement for different schools. The course's goal is to examine the music of 12 world cultures ranging from European to Aboriginal Australian. Class participation includes singing and conducting to the various beats and rhythms of cultural songs. An occasional dance step around the room is required and welcomed. ouke Gifford, Tulsa, Okla., junior, likes the class involvement. "You learn about cultures through music, not through textbooks," he said. Heller said that the course fits in with Masterworks of Music and Jazz and American Popular Music. The ethnicity of the music adds to the trio of classes for students interested, but not majoring, in music. Heller holds himself responsible for creating a "different" class. He said he had a feeling that was what the students wanted and needed. Heller also asked the class about their expectations for the semester. He handed out an evaluation sheet questioning the student's musical backgrounds, majors and ideas for a class format. Some students suggested that music be played on a daily basis so the class could hear the culture instead of just reading about it. 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